3 papers
cs.CL2024
Locating the Leading Edge of Cultural Change
Sarah Griebel, Becca Cohen, Lucian Li +4
Measures of textual similarity and divergence are increasingly used to study cultural change. But which measures align, in practice, with social evidence about change? We apply thr…
cs.CV2024
Handwriting Recognition in Historical Documents with Multimodal LLM
Lucian Li
There is an immense quantity of historical and cultural documentation that exists only as handwritten manuscripts. At the same time, performing OCR across scripts and different han…
cs.CL2024
Detecting text level intellectual influence with knowledge graph embeddings
Lucian Li, Eryclis Silva
Introduction: Tracing the spread of ideas and the presence of influence is a question of special importance across a wide range of disciplines, ranging from intellectual history to…